SLP242 Jonas Schnelli Maintaining Bitcoin Core: Contributions, Consensus, Conflict

Jonas Schnelli, one of the Bitcoin Core maintainers joins me to talk about Bitcoin development, contribution, funding and the ecosystem of Bitcoin. We get into:

• How contribution happens
• How to deal with conflict as a maintainer
• What rough consensus means
• Taproot
• Privacy
• Lightning
• Mining
• Outlook for next 5 years

Jonas links:

• Twitter: @jonasschnelli
• Website: bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch/
• Github: github.com/jonasschnelli

Prior episodes:

• SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club
• SLP229 John Newbery – Brink: Bitcoin DevelopmentJohn Newbery
• SLP124 Jon Atack – Bitcoin Core Contribution
• SLP211 Steve Lee – Bitcoin Grants, Design & Crypto Patents (COPA)
• SLP144 Steve Lee – Square Crypto and Supporting Bitcoin Development
• SLP137 AJ Towns – Schnorr Taproot Tapscript BIPs

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Knox Custody
• Hodl Hodl
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CypherSafe (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website
• Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast
• Patreon @stephanlivera